MAY 2014 CONEY ISLAND LIBRARY FREE BRIC MEDIA CLASSES

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The picture-perfect shot doesn’t stop with your camera. In this class, you’ll get hands-on experience with Gimp, a free, versatile photo editing software program, so you can retouch, crop, and color balance your digital photos before showing them to the world. We’ll teach you how to use Gimp, its editing and effects tools, talk about photo-editing best practices and how to export for print and video formats. By the end of this two-hour session, you’ll have the skills to make every shot you take a perfect one.
Presented by BRIC, BPL's lead media education partner.

Want the world to see your video? Put it on the web! Learn how to make a web page that showcases videos you have created. We will show you how to set up a blog, upload your footage, and reveal other benefits to having your video on the Internet.
Presented by BRIC, BPL’s lead media education partner.

Learn simple steps to turn your still images and sound clips into a compelling digital video story. In this two-hour session, you’ll learn about various types of digital story formats, narrative tips and interviewing techniques, and how to combine your pictures and audio recordings into a video using Video Pad. Please bring your own pair of headphones to this class.
Presented by BRIC, BPL's lead media education partner.

Are you a poet or creative writer looking for another way to connect to your audience? In this two-hour workshop, you’ll learn how to record and exhibit your poetry. Using professional Zoom recorders and audio editing software (Audacity), students will create visual poetry pieces ready to be exhibited online.
Presented by BRIC, BPL's lead media education partner.

Taking pictures is easy. But, what do you do after you’ve collected the images? In this two-hour session, you’ll learn about best practices for archiving physical and digital photos. Using your images, we’ll create brief oral history projects, allowing you to narrate a personal reflection of within the story found in your pictures. Students will use Videopad/iMovie to create an exciting video presentation of their oral history.
Presented by BRIC Arts Media Bklyn, BPL's lead media education partner.

We’ll walk you through the steps of creating a Twitter profile (personal or professional), show you how to post your own tweets and teach you common shortcuts so you can connect with other users.
Presented by BRIC, BPL’s lead media education partner.

In this two-hour session, learn to use your mobile device to make compelling short-form videos. We’ll start you off with scriptwriting and storyboarding best practices, discuss frame composition, and then cover how to get the best audio and lighting when recording your footage. You’ll also explore the free Mac editing software program iMovie that can assemble it all into your final short masterpiece. Please bring your own pair of headphones to this class.
Presented by BRIC Arts Media Bklyn, BPL's lead media education partner.

Taking pictures is easy. What do you do after you’ve collected the images? In this two-hour session, you’ll learn about best practices for archiving physical and digital photos. Using your images, we’ll create brief oral history projects, allowing you to narrate a personal reflection of within the story found in your pictures. Students will use Videopad to create an exciting video presentation of their oral history.
Presented by BRIC Arts Media Bklyn, BPL's lead media education partner.

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Coney Island Library
1901 Mermaid Avenue Brooklyn,
New York 11224

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BRIC

BRIC is a cultural institution dedicated to presenting contemporary art, performing arts and community media programs that reflect Brooklyn’s diverse communities, and to providing resources and platforms to support the creative process. All of BRIC’s offerings are free or low cost, to enhance the public’s access to and understanding of arts and media. Each year, upwards of a million people in Brooklyn and citywide are served through our programs. www.BRICartsmedia.org

BRIC is the community media access TV organization for Brooklyn. Its community media programs offer Brooklyn residents free access to media production facilities and equipment and low-cost media education through the BRIC Media Educa­tion. BRIC’s community media programming also includes three programming initiatives aired on the 4-channel Brooklyn Public Network: community-produced Brooklyn Free Speech TV; BRIC-produced, Brooklyn-focused Brooklyn Independent Media; and Brooklyn Bulletin Board, a 24/7 looping community calendar used by Brooklyn non-profits.